Over the next couple of episodes, I’m going to share my perspective on the 7 Cardinal Rules of an 80:20 Sales Pro shared by Perry Marshall in his book 80/20 Sales and Marketing.

Keep Striving!

Stian

This episode has a little challenge in it for you...

Listen to find out what it is.

Inspired by 'How to Get Away With Murder'.

Keep Striving!

Stian

‘You’ll never experience thriving until you start striving... consistently.’

The concept of thriving is nothing new. In fact, there are very few people on this planet who wouldn’t want ‘more or better’ than they have now.

- More Money

- Better Relationships

- More Freedom

- Better Body

- Etc

Progress, growth, and expansion are part of life. Because if you’re not growing, you’re slowly but surely dying.

That’s where Striving comes in. Simply striving to be 1% better than yesterday is all it takes.

Nothing crazy or extreme necessary, unless you want to

‘Unworthiness is NOT worth your time.’

'You'll always take as much time as you give yourself to get it done.'

'Live a Solution-Based Lifestyle and You'll Never Be Caught With Your Pants Down...Again.'

'The journey of growth sucks most of the time, but without it, we're simply dying.'

Today is just one of those days that doing what needs to be done is HARD, like extremely hard.

I think the universe listened to yesterday's episode about Results and Resilience and decided to throw some resilience my way.

Here's the truth that very few 'gurus' are willing to share...

Growth is not always fun, sometimes it's quite uncomfortable... a lot of the time the journey simply sucks... but in the end, without growing we're simply dying.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it

'Challenges in Life are Inevitable, so you might as well Engineer them Yourself.'

Life is full of obstacles, bad luck, crappy situations, betrayal, misfortune, etc.

So if you know this to be true, why not just live a life where you engineer your own challenges?

You'll generally get one of two outcomes:

1. Resilience - a.k.a things didn't go as planned.

2. Results - a.k.a you got what you wanted.

If there's one thing I've learned from life's challenges, it's this...

'It's better to forge resilience while you can before you're forced to have resilience when you can't.'

Living a challenged-based lifestyle gives you the best of both worlds:

1. You get to build up the resilience you need when the shit storm hits.

2. You actively work on progress and growth.

Keep Striving!

Stian

'The Right Morning Routine can be a Great Source of Power'

This one is pretty self-explanatory but read that one again...

Now, imagine the opposite. Because that's also true.

'The Wrong Morning Routine can be a Great Source of [Insert Negative]'

Negative = Chaos / Depression / Distruction / Unhappy / etc

Keep Striving!

Stian

'You can't win the race if you don't make some space'

Walk into any room what do you see?

People, possessions, and other material things. Physical things you can see and touch.

How often do we consider the empty spaces between and around those physical things?

The more things you add, the more uncomfortable that space becomes for you to live in... That's why 'self-storage' facilities have become such a big thing.

Houses are getting smaller and people have too much shit, so what do they do?

They remove it and put it into a storage facility to create space...

Well, consider that your mind works on the same principle. The more shit you add to it, the more uncomfortable it becomes for you to stay focused and be effective on a daily basis.

The solution?

Create space with some quiet time where you simply sit and take a couple of deep breaths to de-stress. As simple as that.

With that said, I'm off for my meditation session